Drug-dealer, 80, avoids jail sentence for €60k cannabis

An octogenarian drug-dealer who was caught with around €60,000 worth of cannabis for sale was spared a jail sentence partly because of his age and ill health.

Denis O’Callaghan, aged 80, of Gardeen, Lismire, Newmarket, Co Cork, spent the past week in jail on remand for sentencing yesterday at Cork Circuit Criminal Court.

His barrister, Ray Boland, had expressed the concern that even a week behind bars could kill the pensioner.